Coalition Party of Norway

The Coalition Party was a liberal-conservative political party in Norway that was active from 1903 to 1909. The party was effectively a coalition drawn from the Conservative Party of Norway, the Moderate Liberal Party, and independent liberal politicians, and it opposed the Liberal Party of Norway's radicalism and the growth of social democracy in the country. The party supported the existence of Sweden-Norway until its 1905 dissolution, and Christian Michelsen's 1907 resignation coincided with the decline of the theory of an anti-socialist coalition. It was clear that the Liberal Party was never going to join the united, non-socialist party, and it was defunct by 1909.